2024

How an unlikely Chinese condiment took over the world (The Globe and Mail)

Japan’s love for convenience stores key to Couche-Tard’s 7-Eleven quest (The Globe and Mail)

‘Why didn’t you help me?’: As Russia returns U.S. prisoners, some detainees in China feel abandoned (The Globe and Mail)

How Filipinos squashed malaria (The Globe and Mail)

Philippines grapples with rising HIV rates, even as infections fall across most of the globe (The Globe and Mail)

The deadly mix of tuberculosis and intense heat in the Philippines’s overcrowded jails (The Globe and Mail)

Karen rebels in Myanmar learn a strategic border town is easy to take from the junta, but hard to hold (The Globe and Mail)

— As civil war rages in Myanmar, a Thai border town has become a hub for diplomacy and espionage (The Globe and Mail)

— ‘Almost a total brain drain’: Myanmar conscription law could cast long shadow as tens of thousands flee (The Globe and Mail)

South Korea, once the leading Asian Tiger, sees tough times on the horizon (The Globe and Mail)

How Vietnam’s crackdowns on dissent clash with pledges of reform and trade (The Globe and Mail)

Ten years on from Kunming attack, terror threat has receded but crackdown on Muslims continues unabated (The Globe and Mail)

‘China’s Barbie’: Why boxing movie YOLO has proved a knock-out with female audiences (The Globe and Mail)

French citizen living in China believes husband was jailed because of his sexuality (The Globe and Mail)

Three years after Myanmar coup, the military is looking shakier than ever. What comes next is less clear (The Globe and Mail)

Taiwan’s election fills tiny Kinmen island with questions and anxiety about future ties with China (The Globe and Mail)

Renewed strife in the Middle East highlights Hong Kong’s role in Iran sanctions busting efforts (The Globe and Mail)

2023

Casting a ballot in a Hong Kong election that exposes the political apathy caused by Beijing’s tightening grip (The Globe and Mail)

Myanmar’s civil war nears a ‘tipping point’ as democratic rebels prepare for victory (The Globe and Mail)

Five years after Canada banned asbestos, industry clings on in India despite health concerns (The Globe and Mail)

A little-known Canadian publisher’s glowing review of the Xinjiang region offers insight into Beijing’s propaganda machine (The Globe and Mail)

Hong Kong’s rulers rewrite recent history to keep protests against Chinese rule safely in the past (The Globe and Mail)

The rise of Narendra Modi, the shrewd leader shaping India in his own strongman image (The Globe and Mail)

Some Sikhs in India fear pro-Khalistan provocations from the diaspora could put them at risk (The Globe and Mail)

At Delhi’s G20 summit, a ‘scramble for India’ (The Globe and Mail)

Cox’s Bazar was supposed to be a refuge for the Rohingya. For many it has become a nightmare (The Globe and Mail)

Chinese feminists fight harassment and government censorship to carve out space online (The Globe and Mail)

How William Majcher, a former Mountie, ended up accused of conspiring with China (The Globe and Mail)

The Hong Kong Ballet embraces its local identity, amidst a city in flux (The Globe and Mail)

Britons are starting to examine, at long last, their ignoble colonial history (The Globe and Mail)

Corruption in Hong Kong soccer league meets its match (The Globe and Mail)

How a small Chinese city’s barbecue stands became an overnight sensation (The Globe and Mail)

For decades, China has strived to eat more meat. Can it be persuaded to do the opposite? (The Globe and Mail)

Hong Kong’s tough approach to drug mules isn’t working – even a judge seems to think so (The Globe and Mail)

Small town offers Japan solutions to ease its population-decline problem (The Globe and Mail)

2022

Tibetans in India, dwindling in numbers, struggle to see a future beyond an aging Dalai Lama (The Globe and Mail)

— When India and China clash, it’s often Tibetans doing the fighting (The Globe and Mail)

— For Tibetans, getting information past China’s barriers is harder than ever (The Globe and Mail)

Hong Kong refuses to reveal details of secretive ‘deradicalization’ program for former protesters (The Globe and Mail)

Canada to sell more arms to Qatar even as scrutiny of human rights record intensifies (The Globe and Mail)

What is Qatar’s final goal? (The Globe and Mail)

At World Cup 2022, Wales cheers for sporting success abroad and cultural resurgence at home (The Globe and Mail)

Japan’s hope of reclaiming Kuril Islands sinks as Russia’s war in Ukraine raises animosity in the Pacific (The Globe and Mail)

The man who will shape the future: China’s Xi Jinping prepares for a second decade in power (The Globe and Mail)

— What Xi Jinping’s third term could mean for Canada-China relations (The Globe and Mail)

Is there room for travel game shows in a post-COVID, climate conscious world? (The Globe and Mail)

At an alternative soccer world cup, Tibetan women get to showcase their culture (The Globe and Mail)

How Hong Kong could become the next hot place for Russian oligarchs to store their wealth (The Globe and Mail)

— The world’s ‘most high-profile kleptocracy case’ didn’t stop the sale of this Hong Kong penthouse (The Globe and Mail)

As Hong Kong clamps down, ‘burden of remembering’ Tiananmen Massacre shifts overseas (The Globe and Mail)

Sri Lanka’s economic crisis was avoidable, until it wasn’t. Will its political crisis be the same? (The Globe and Mail)

‘Stray’ director flies to Istanbul to save her street-dog star (The Globe and Mail)

Canadian-Chinese billionaire Xiao Jianhua was grabbed by Beijing’s agents in Hong Kong five years ago. He has yet to go on trial (The Globe and Mail)

Australia’s republicans don’t want the Queen, but can’t agree on a better head of state (The Globe and Mail)

Trapped in Indonesia, Rohingya struggle to get by as laws block their path to asylum elsewhere (The Globe and Mail)

2021

Two Canadians, a Chinese admiral and a dramatic escape from Hong Kong at the height of WWII (The Globe and Mail)

How an Ontario hotel chain got dragged into a Hong Kong national security case (The Globe and Mail)

China wants to dominate the global electric vehicle market – and it’s using Congolese minerals to do it (The Globe and Mail)

Chinese overseas turn to private security companies to protect them as they become a target for crime and terrorism (The Globe and Mail)

For asylum seekers, Hong Kong is easy to reach but hard to stay in thanks to Kafkaesque policies (The Globe and Mail)

An American teacher was jailed for child abuse in China in 2014. He still says he's innocent — if only anyone would listen. (CNN)

These Uyghurs were locked up by the US in Guantanamo. Now they're being used as an excuse for China's crackdown in Xinjiang (CNN)

From cover-up to propaganda blitz: China's attempts to control the narrative on Xinjiang (CNN)

2020

Peter Humphrey was once locked up in China. Now he advises other prisoners and their families how to take on Beijing (CNN)

The Mormon church’s century-long mission to crack China (CNN)

'I love you': How a badly-coded computer virus caused billions in damage (CNN Business)

Hong Kong’s vast $3.8 billion rain-tunnel network (CNN)

Indigenous Australians had their languages taken from them, and it's still causing issues today (CNN)

How a Hong Kong teenager's death became a magnet for conspiracies (CNN)

Maintaining Hong Kong’s 400 miles of hiking trails, one step at a time (CNN Travel)

Derided in the West, spam is so beloved in Asia that one company has invented a meat-free version of it (CNN Travel)

Earlier

When Chinese hackers declared war on the rest of us (MIT Technology Review)

Peace activist or atomic spy? The curious case of a Cold War nuclear scientist (CNN)

A generation criminalised: How six months of protests changed Hong Kong forever (CNN, Finalist, Best Individual Editorial Feature, Webby Awards 2020)

Weibo’s free-speech failure (The Atlantic)

How the seizure of a US spy ship by North Korea nearly sparked nuclear war (CNN)

The 'forgotten' My Lai: South Korea's Vietnam War massacres (CNN)

Australia is still dealing with the legacy of the UK's nuclear bomb tests, 65 years on (CNN)

How 1MDB finally caught up with Najib Razak (CNN)

— The cartoonists who helped take down a Malaysian prime minister (CNN)

68 years after the Korean War, hundreds of US families are still searching for closure (CNN)

Why this choir is a huge hit with China’s stressed out millennials (CNN)

Soon all of Hong Kong’s dolphins will be dead (CNN)

The secret negotiations that sealed Hong Kong’s future (CNN)

Badiucao: A Chinese political cartoonist reinvents himself in Australia (CNN Style)

The internet is made of dogs (SCMP)

India's forgotten Chinese internment camp (The Atlantic)

Burma’s badass gun-toting medics (The Daily Beast)

Shanghai's disappearing Jewish past (The Atlantic)